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Governments around the world reached a preliminary deal Saturday on paying the most vulnerable nations for the damage they’re suffering from climate change
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Here are five big lessons Speaker Nancy Pelosi taught us about how change is really made in Washington:
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Voters in several states backed Republicans for governor while supporting Democrats for Senate
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New text circulating at the U.N. climate talks in Egypt suggests that Washington is reconsidering its resistance to supplying developing countries with funds for the damage they suffer from rising temperatures
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Nightly reports on the states where the balance of power is shifting after the midterms👇
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Washington is rattling its sabers as Elon Musk flails around as Twitter’s new owner. But interviews with the heads of committees that have actual jurisdiction over Twitter suggest Congress has little leverage and political willpower to go after Musk.
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UPDATE: The special counsel appointed by Garland is JACK SMITH, DOJ's former public integrity chief.
He once secured the conviction of a CIA official charged with "illegally disclosing national defense information and obstructing justice."
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AG Merrick Garland has appointed a special prosecutor to oversee criminal matters related to Donald Trump.
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House Judiciary Committee GOP firing off letters detailing who they want to talk to next year.
To WH: republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/upl
To DOJ: republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/upl
To DHS: republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/upl
To FBI: republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/upl
To Dept. of Education: republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/upl
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More and more climate activists are making the jump to jobs inside some of the world's powerful governments.
It’s a shift that affords them unmatched power to shape global affairs.
But it comes at the price of moral purity.
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Rick Caruso spent $104M, most of it his own money, and still lost the LA mayor's race.
He'll now take his place in history among the list of candidates who have funded record-setting campaigns in California, only to come up short.
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Add this to the list of Elon Musk's problems at Twitter:
The work he'll have to do convincing Europe's top privacy enforcer that his platform isn't breaking the law.
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Europe depended on Russian gas for years. A tiny German town is about to change that.
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Hakeem Jeffries has announced his official bid to lead House Democrats, capping off months of behind-the-scenes efforts to lock up support.
The New Yorker would be the first Black lawmaker to hold the top spot in party leadership.
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NEW: The Jan. 6 select committee has a "laundry list" of unfinished business:
-When to send their massive report to the printer
-Whether to criminally refer Trump and his associates
-When to release 1,000 witness transcripts
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NEW: Proescutors pleaded with a jury not to be "numb" to the graphic evidence that Oath Keepers were prepared to unleash violence in order to derail the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.
The case may reach the jury today or Monday.
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NEW - Rep. is running for re-election as the CPC chair, opting against a bid for Dem caucus-wide leadership, per letter sent to colleague this am
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Rep. Katherine Clark makes her bid for Dem Whip official:
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We are live!
The COP27 UN climate summit is coming to an end today.
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To become president, Donald Trump had to vanquish a Florida governor. To become president again, he might have to do it once more.
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NEW - House Dems are deconflicting, meaning leadership troika could be unopposed:
-Schiff eyeing Senate
-Jayapal expected to run again for CPC chair and pass on leadership, per 4 ppl
-discussions ongoing but Neguse could stay at DPCC, per 3 ppl
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“You’ve gotta have a war every five or 10 years to get rid of the bad blood,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said, paraphrasing a line from “The Godfather” to paint a picture of Senate Republicans. “And then you start over.”
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It’s not every day that a senator quotes a famous mob movie to describe the state of his political party after a week of infighting
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House Democrats are increasingly likely to elect their troika of top leaders for the next Congress without any major confrontation, ensuring a show of unity as they enter the minority
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Trump 2024 isn’t top of mind for the Jan. 6 select committee. Not when it still has work to do investigating the former president’s 2020 pressure campaign.
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BREAKING: defends her Orange County seat.
After tens of millions of dollars, it appears every California frontline incumbent — D and R — wins re-election
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Katie Porter (D) has won the race for the House seat in California's 47th District.
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The House breakdown is now 218R to 211D & there are now just SIX unresolved races.
#CA34 - a Dem vs Dem
#AKAL - waiting on ranked choice
#CO03 - headed to a recount
#CA13 - John Duarte (R) leads by 963 votes
#CA22 - David Valadao (R) leads 4K
#CA03 - Kevin Kiley (R) leads by 9K twitter.com/AP_Politics/st…
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Senate is now taking a procedural vote on the same-sex marriage bill, final passage will be after Thanksgiving.
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NOW VOTING: Motion to proceed to Cal. #449, H.R.8404, Respect for Marriage Act.
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🔵 Katie Porter (D) has won the race for the House seat in California's 47th District.
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"If you don’t have 218 people, we’re just having a conversation” — Nancy Pelosi's mantra, according to her former chief of staff. What made the outgoing House speaker a durable leader, and what’s next for the caucus? Nightly reports 👇
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 35-year legacy in Congress is defined by precision — and her exit from Democratic leadership was just as methodically choreographed.
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